In an excerpt from their new book, Wealth and Power: China’s Long March to the Twenty-first Century, Orville Schell and John Delury trace China’s dream of national rejuvenation from the hopes of 19th Century reformers, through the “creative destruction” of Mao Zedong, to the explosive accumulation of wealth and power over the last thirty years. But despite enormous achievements, they argue, true respect towards and within China has remained